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Eight Pro Golfers Place in Top 100 List That Makes No Sense
Bloomberg Business Week put out its annual Power 100 Athletes list today. Eight golfers made the list, though the press release said that Tiger Woods and eight other golfers made the list. Predictably (before the accident), Woods is number 1. Predictably (after the accident), he probably won't...
Welcome to Tigermania 2.0: How This All May Somehow Help Golf
"Hello world." Remember that? That was how Tiger introduced his professional career at the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1996. Some thirteen years later, the phrase is now being retooled to explain the revelations of Tiger Woods' extramarital activities. "I am Tiger Woods." The captivating Nike ad...
What Do You Expect From Tiger When He Returns?
I am not going to get on the bandwagon of writers who are throwing darts at the schedule to see when Tiger will return to competition. But, David Sweet at MSNBC penned a sports business piece whose paragraph on Woods caught my eye. For the first time in his pro golfing career, expectations will...
Golf Could Have a Big Deal on Its Hands
I don't normally talk about politics in this blog. But, given the purchase of Wachovia and the apparent failure of the vote on the bailout in the House of Representatives, the golf world could be seriously hurting. Sure, the banks that went down so far had a lot of money in with. Merrill was a...
Callaway Closing Ball Plant
According to Ping, it is the only company still running a foundry in the U.S. Not sure how many golf ball manufacturing plants remain here, but as of July 31 there'll be one less. Callaway is closing its plant in Gloversville, N.Y., that employs around 120 workers, and shifting its work to...
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